@Terry *******

for the financial proof for an extension of stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife, consecutive monthly transfers of a minimum of 40,000 THB equivalent need to be coming from abroad month for month not missing out one single month. Unless you have a work permit and earn income inside Thailand

@Rodger *******

correct wording, please! The 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa doesn't get you a "12 retirement visa". It doesn't get you any visa at all. It only allows you to apply for the "12-months extension of the temporary stay permit based on retirement". This "extended" stay permit is not a visa. The 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa itself actually becomes invalid for further use when you enter Thailand

@Mark ***

you must avoid AirBnB rentals. Rent premises from a Thai, using a real rental contract, or use a hotel (Bangkok Immigration accepts a TM30 of a hotel address to issue the cerificate of residence)

there couldn't be a better explanation than the one Brandon gave you. You can apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa in the E-visa system in the U.S.A., using your original income documents. Once issued the visa, enter Thailand on it, and open a Thai bank account as soon as possible. Transfer a minimum of 800,000 THB into your account. Then as soon as the money has "seasoned" for 2 months, you can apply for the yearly "12-months extension of temporary stay permit based on being over 50/retirement" on Immigration, and repeat this application every year

the requirements for the "change of visa type" in case of being married to a Thai wife, is number 6 on this Immigration list

Christian Echtler

*** firstly, you need to understand the difference between a „visa“ and a „stay permit“ and an “extension of the stay permit”.

As long as you mix up these two different things, you will always get “lost in translation” when speaking with Immigration officials, who mostly also do not keep these two different things apart from each other. In their bad English, a visa for them is the same as a stay permit, and this is so terribly and technically wrong

The Immigration official probably told you to exit Thailand and apply for the 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O Family Visa by the E-Visa system of the Thai embassy in the neighbor country, as you CANNOT use the E-visa online system while you are still inside Thailand

*** you should have applied for the “change of visa type” from a tourist entry to an initial “90-days Non-Imm-O marriage to a Thai wife Visa”

Pre-requisite for this application is you have 400,000 THB sitting in your Thai bank account (no “seasoning period” required at this point, yet), and you got a freshly printed from the Amphur “Kor Ror 22 or 2 (whichever applies) that proves your marriage is acknowledged and registered in Thailand and is still active and valid. Without you marriage registered in Thailand you cannot achieve a 1-year stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife!

You need to have a minimum of 15 days left on your “admitted stay entry stamp” to be able to apply for the “change of visa type”

***and as soon as the 400,000 THB have been sitting in your Thai bank account for 2 months, you can apply for the “1-year Extension of Temporary Stay Permit based on being married to a Thai wife” (which is NOT anything you call "marriage visa" but which is a simple "one year stay permit")

***the fee for the “change” is 2000 THB, and the fee for the application to the “extension” is 1900 THB. And I recommend you buy a single re-entry permit for 1000 THB for the extension of the stay permit, the very moment after it got stamped into your passport

don't overestimate yourself. come for a three-months holiday, travel around from the North to the Central to the South. Keep in mind from May thru September the weather is hot and humid

@Robin ******

your application got accepted, and you were given a stamp or a paper notice "application under consideration, visit Immigration on September 29" for which you need to check your passport. . . . . . until then, nothing to worry about your 90-days report. However you will probably get called by Immigration when it comes to their planned visit in your home during the "under consideration" period. After this visit, on September 29, you will be able to pick up the stamp of your "1-year Extension of Temporary Stay Permit based on being married to a Thai wife" you will not be on a "visa", your visa is already expired and invalid, you are in Thailand on a "stay permit"

ChatGPT is fishing in a large pool of false informations. So no wonder it often comes up with a false result

@Hardev ******

from 4 days to 4 weeks . . .depending if you have uploaded all the correct documents. If they feel that anything is missing, they will email you. Always check the spam folder as well